“I believe in the power of symbols.”
- Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey, page 82, sentence 3, Special Edition Nook Version
I absolutely believe in the power of symbols and signs! So much so that when the Daily Prompt asked me to open the nearest book to page 82 and write a post about the third full sentence– I considered it a double-sign that the sentence was about symbols.
Not to sound like the double-rainbow-meme-guy, but … what does it mean?
There’s a lot of symbols in my life that have meaning to me, for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes it’s obvious– what the symbol means to most people is what it means to me. Sometimes it’s personal– the symbol has meaning because of things that happened in my life, or people I have met.
Each one is probably deserving of it’s own post, but for the purposes of this challenge, I thought I’d display of the beauty of them as a photo gallery:
I snagged all these from Symbols.com — which do you recognize? Are there any symbols that mean something to you? Either something inherent in their known meaning, or something personal?
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Daily Post: Open your nearest book to page 82. Take the third full sentence on the page, and work it into a post somehow: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/daily-prompt-connect-the-dots/
I loved the site of symbols. Thanks for posting the link too. Jackie
It’s an awesome site!
I love that it’s sorted by phrases so you can look it up. Though, there’s a suspicious lack of good luck symbols…
That is a fantastic site. I’m attracted to the yin/yang one you have in the last row.
It’s a “Japanese heraldic sign found on a Samurai coat of arms in which two “seeds of the universe ” rotate counterclockwise”
That’s awesome. They’d make a great tattoo…
Oh I’m too much of a sissy for tattoos!
But yes, a collage of symbols would be awesome.
Nook, huh? Walking a thin line, lady. That could be considered a lot of books nearest to you.
I recognize all of them…save two. The one that looks like a bio-hazard sign gone wrong, and the middle one in the last row, which looks familiar but I cannot recall where I would have seen it before now. (Is it Hindu?) I may not have the correct meaning, but they do have meaning, except for the first one in the middle row. It does remind me of ES: Skyrim, which I haven’t played in a while.
Not to sound OCD, but my reply posted wrong so I’m reposting it actually attached to your comment, ha! The gallery is set on randomize– but I think you meant these three and if so… here’s the definitions: http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/32/324.html, http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/14/1422.html, http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/14/1426.html
YES! the Samurai symbol. I should have figured. I see that symbol often, but never really SEEN it. Thank you for following up on this.
Symbols and Signs….when I recognise a sign or symbol, I tend to relate that directly to what I was doing when I first saw it, and how I was feeling and how that sign/symbol made me feel, the actual meaning of them becomes irrelevant sometimes.
Exactly!
Some of the symbols above are tattooed on people I love, some were printing in books that I lived in, ah… so many good memories in just a simple symbol. 
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Take care,
Ivon
Thanks, Ivon! Glad to have you around. haha, yes, there’s always madhattery to be found here.
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